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Since the Clifford algebra can be described using a Graßmann basis, it seems to be possible to introduce a ✩ -grading here also. However, a short calculation shows that the Clifford product does not respect this grading, but only a weaker filtration, see later chapters. ✞✖✪ be extensors of step ➯ and → one obtains Let × ✪ × æ ➟❇ ➁ ➢ ➍✜↕ ✬✫☞➤ ✭ ➍ ✣ ➤ ✭ ÷ ➁ ✆ ✲ (2-20) This is not an accident of the foreign basis, but remains to be true in a Clifford basis also. The terms of lower step emerge from the necessary commutation of some generators to the proper place in a reduced word.